Are you looking to find out the answer to the question: are lava lamps worth it?
Here is everything I can tell you about a lava lamp, after using a basic one for quite a while now.
Lava lamps have a simple build.
There are even tutorials on the web that are showing how to make a lava lamp at home.
It is better to see them in real life, before ordering one from the Internet.
The videos from the Internet might not help that much.
The lava can be either green, red, purple, blue etc, but the light source (the light bulb that is inside the lamp) is the one that has a big impact.
If it is yellow and the “lava” is green, it will give a funny look rather than something serious and cool.
The lava lamp will not look like a venom liquid, but rather like something between yellow and green.
You can replace the yellow light with a white one (cool light bulb), but these light bulbs might be harder to find.
So, are lava lamps worth it?
You might get bored of it after you use it for a few days.
Not to count that in the first few days, it will distract you.
The good thing about them is that they are cheap, around 20-30 euro for one, so the price should not be a real problem.
Regarding their safety, you have to keep the lamp placed on something that doesn’t heat, not on a carpet for example, only on something solid that won’t heat.
These lamps do heat a lot after a few hours.
They can run for hours and hours without any issues, but I would recommend to keep them “ON” only while you are awake, and in the room with the lamp.
Other than that, if you work during the night, you want something to “animate” the room, a lava lamp can be a good choice.
After all, if you don’t like it, you can always sell it on Ebay or similar websites.